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POLLOCK CONSERVATION AT MOCA

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In collaboration with the Getty Conservation Institute, MOCA has been conducting – in public – a conservation of Jackson Pollock’s abstract expressionist painting NUMBER 1, 1949 (1949), part of the collection since 1989.

“On select dates, the conservator will perform the conservation treatment during open hours, answering questions from the public about the protocols and processes of modern art conservation. Three works by Pollock from MOCA’s permanent collection, dating from 1943 to 1951, will also be on view, exemplifying a range of materials from watercolor to collage.”*

Independent conservator Chris Stavroudis will be working in-gallery on the treatment of Pollock’s NUMBER 1, 1949 (1949) on Thursdays in April and May, and will be available for Q&A sessions from 11:30 am to noon and from 5:30 to 6:00 pm.

 

CHRIS STAVROUDIS – JACKSON POLLOCK’S NUMBER 1, 1949: A CONSERVATION TREATMENT, Thursdays, April 19, April 26, May 10, May 17, and May 24.

MOCA GRAND AVENUE, 250 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

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Above: Chris Stavroudis at work at MOCA. Installation view photograph by Brian Forrest. Image credit: MOCA.

Below: Jackson PollockNumber 1, 1949, 1949, enamel and metallic paint on canvas, 63 x 102 1/2 in. (160.02 x 260.35 cm), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Rita and Taft Schreiber Collection, © 2017 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1949

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NAN GOLDIN IN CONVERSATION

Nan Goldin will join MOCA curator Lanka Tattersall for a wide-ranging conversation about Goldin’s work, on view in the museum’s exhibition REAL WORLDS—BRASSAÏ, ARBUS, GOLDIN.

 

NAN GOLDIN IN CONVERSATION, Sunday, Apr 1, at 3 pm.

REAL WORLDS—BRASSAÏ, ARBUS, GOLDIN, through September 3.

MOCA GRAND AVENUE, 250 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

moca.org/program/nan-goldin-in-conversation-with-lanka-tattersall

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Nan Goldin and Vince Aletti in conversation, from 2014: documentjournal.com/nan-goldin-and-vince-aletti

Nan Goldin, Brian and Nan in Bed, New York City, 1983. Image courtesy of the artist, MOMA, and MOCA.

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DOUGLAS KEARNEY READING

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In conjunction with the installation LAUREN HALSEYWE STILL HERE, THERE, poet, performer, and librettist Douglas Kearney will read from his work.

Kearney is the author of Fear, Some (2006), Black Automaton (2009).

 

DOUGLAS KEARNEY, Sunday, March 25, at 3 pm.

MOCA GRAND AVENUE, 250 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

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Kearney reading “No Homo” at the 2012 Split This Rock poetry festival:

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Above: Douglas Kearney.

Below: An example of Kearney’s “performative typography.”

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MARTHA ROSLER — FEMINISM AND THE STATE

This weekend at MOCA, the artist Martha Rosler will deliver the keynote address at FEMINISM AND THE STATE—ART, POLITICS, AND RESISTANCE, a symposium organized byRutgers University’s The Feminist Art Project (TFAP). “The TFAP symposium will open space for a discussion of art and art history that sheds light on historical precedents and paths for feminist resistance, with a special focus on methodologies pressing at the limits of art history.”*

This presentation is part of the annual College Art Association conference, where Charles Gaines will give the keynote address this evening (February 21, at 6 pm) at the Los Angeles Convention Center.**

 

FEMINISM AND THE STATE—ART, POLITICS, AND RESISTANCE, Saturday, February 24, from 10 am to 4:30 pm.

MARTHA ROSLER KEYNOTE ADDRESS is at 10:15 am.

MOCA GRAND AVENUE, 250 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

moca.org/feminism-and-the-state-art-politics-and-resistance

** conference.collegeart.org/CharlesGaines

 

Martha Rosler.

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BRONTEZ PURNELL — 100 BOYFRIENDS MIXTAPE

100 BOYFRIENDS MIXTAPE is the story of a hundred different failed relationships condensed down into the story of one relationship, and the drama around it. It’s autobiographical, but it’s this term I like to use: ‘fake autobiographical.’ Am I Deshaun? Yes, but it’s like, every boy is Deshaun. He’s a conglomeration of my experiences and my friends’ experiences; the general experiences of a boy who engages in a lot of sexual acts. I feel like I have a hundred different boyfriends because it’s hard to ask one person for everything, right?”— Brontez Purnell

 

Purnell’s 100 BOYFRIENDS MIXTAPE (THE DEMO) is streaming through February 5th as part of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles program ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS.

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Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends Mixtape.

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